OS VectorMap Local
A highly-detailed, customisable, street-level vector map, OS VectorMap Local® shows fences, building outlines, paths and street names, for the accurate lie of the land.

Customisable street level mapping of Great Britain, OS VectorMap Local enables customisable mapping with street level detail that is highly accurate, detailed and reliable.
About OS VectorMap Local
Highly detailed vector mapping
"Ordnance Survey VectorMap Local is full of rich, detailed mapping attributes and features that improves contextual information and in-depth analysis – especially when compared to alternative data sources."
Customisable
"Prebuilt colour options are available for both vector and raster formats, but vector data is fully customisable. You can design your VML basemap to perfectly suit your needs. This might be to a preferred colour palette, to suit different viewing methods or to highlight features of most interest."
Reliable, up-to-date mapping
"OS VectorMap Local is generated automatically from OS Large Scale Topographic database (used for OSMM Topo), improving currency and consistency to give accurate and reliable real world geographical information."
OS VectorMap Local is ideal for:
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Use in CAD or GIS
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Urban designers
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Landscape architects
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Risk management
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Transport management/Traffic planning
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Planners
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Environmental analysis
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Ecologists
FAQs
Can I get this as a Raster map?
Yes, OS VectorMap Local is also available as a separate product called OS VectorMap Local Raster
Is this a UK Vector Map?
The Ordnance Survey covers Great Britain.
You can see the Northern Ireland range of mapping and data here.
What scale is OS VectorMap Local?
OS VectorMap Local is suitable for viewing between 1:3 000 to 1:20 000.
Our OS Vector Map Product Suite
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OS VectorMap Local
A highly-detailed, customisable, street-level vector map at 1:10,000 scale, showing physical boundaries around properties, building outlines, paths and street names, for the accurate lie of the land.
Product DetailsOS VectorMap Local is a vector mapping dataset designed to provide contextual mapping outputs. Generated from large-scale source data OS VectorMap Local is ideally suited for applications where 1:10,000 raster backdrop mapping would have previously been used.
VectorMap Local offers the user the flexibility to turn on and off layers of mapping and to style the data as required, allowing the user to create custom maps highlighting their features of interest. Purchasable as a user defined area and deliverable in a range of GIS and CAD formats VectorMap Local is viewable and printable at a variety of scales. The product contains the following features:
• buildings, structures and leisure areas
• roads, paths and tracks
• vegetation and surface features
• water features and associated detail
• railways and associated detail
• spot height
• archaeological and antiquity information
• text
• miscellaneous information – remote areas, foot bridges, house names and all buildings.
Licence: PDF
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- Quarterly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:10,000
- Formats Available
- SHP, TAB, GML, DWG
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Licence Options
- Annual
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
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OS VectorMap Local Raster
Raster version of the popular OS VectorMap Local, ideal as a backdrop image for engineering, environmental and landscape design projects.
Product DetailsOS VectorMap Local Raster replaces OS 1:10,000 colour raster and is designed for providing contextual mapping output, generated from large-scale source information. It is available as both colour and black and white in a range of raster formats.
The product contains the following features:
- buildings, structures and leisure areas
- roads, paths and tracks
- vegetation and surface features
- water features and associated detail
- railways and associated detail
- spot height
- archaeological and antiquity information
- text
- miscellaneous information – remote areas, foot bridges, house names and all buildings
Also available as a non-georeferenced image.
Licence: PDF
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- Quarterly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:10,000
- Formats Available
- PNG, TIFF, JPG, BMP
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Licence Options
- Annual
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
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OS Terrain 5
OS Terrain 5 is a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) showing the bare surface of the ground, without vegetation or buildings and is ideal for 3D modelling.
Product DetailsIt offers detailed modelling of significant features such as road, rail, quarries and lakes allowing you to asses the lie of the land on-screen and reduce the need for site visits. OS Terrain 5 has a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 1.5 metres in urban areas and major communication routes.
OS Terrain 5 is maintained as part of the same revision process as the Ordnance Survey's large scale datasets and so adds a valuable third dimension to OS MasterMap Topography Layer.
Licence: PDF
OS Terrain 5 is ideal for:
OS Terrain 5 is particularly valuable for large scale development projects, planning, impact assessment
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- 6 weekly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 5m resolution
- Formats Available
- ASC, XYZ, TXT, DXF
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Licence Options
- Annual
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
Related Products
Aerial Photography, OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS VectorMap Local
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OS MasterMap Topography Layer
OS MasterMap Topography Layer is the most detailed and accurate view of Great Britain's landscape – from roads to fields, to buildings and trees, fences, paths and more.
Product DetailsOS MasterMap is the most detailed, current and comprehensive map dataset of Great Britain, enabling you to make better decisions and manage your assets more effectively. Working with the other mapping layers in the suite, OS MasterMap Topography Layer gives you the visual context to help interpret addresses, routes and imagery. OS MasterMap is the approved dataset for planning applications and land registration.
Continually updated, OS MasterMap contains 450 million geographic features found in the real world, from detailed building and road outlines to water features, pathways, bus shelters and letter boxes.
OS MasterMap is ideal for:
- Use in CAD or GIS
- Planning
- Site location and evaluation
- Risk management
- Transport and infrastructure
- Asset management
- Environmental analysis
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- 6 weekly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:1250
- Formats Available
- DWG, SHP, GML, TAB, DXF, GDB, KML, TIFF
- Stated Accuracy
- Urban +/- 1m
- Stated Accuracy
- Rural +/- 8m
- Stated Accuracy
- +/- 8m
- Licence Options
- 12, 24 or 36 months
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
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Complementary Data
OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus
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OS MasterMap 3D - Building Heights and OS Terrain 5
OS MasterMap is the most detailed & accurate view of Great Britain's landscape – with roads, fields, buildings, trees, fences & more. Combined with OS Terrain 5 as a single file, saving time & money.
Product DetailsOS MasterMap is the most detailed, current and comprehensive map dataset of Great Britain, enabling you to make better decisions and manage your assets more effectively. Working with the other mapping layers in the suite, OS MasterMap Topography Layer gives you the visual context to help interpret addresses, routes and imagery. OS MasterMap is the approved dataset for planning applications and land registration.
Continually updated, OS MasterMap contains 450 million geographic features found in the real world, from detailed building and road outlines to water features, pathways, bus shelters and letter boxes.
OS MasterMap is ideal for:
- Use in CAD or GIS
- Planning
- Site location and evaluation
- Risk management
- Transport and infrastructure
- Asset management
- Environmental analysis
OS Terrain 5 is ideal for:
OS Terrain 5 is particularly valuable for large scale development projects, planning, impact assessment
OS Terrain 5 offers detailed modelling of significant features such as road, rail, quarries and lakes allowing you to asses the lie of the land on-screen and reduce the need for site visits. OS Terrain 5 has a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 1.5 metres in urban areas and major communication routes.
OS Terrain 5 is maintained as part of the same revision process as the Ordnance Survey's large scale datasets and so adds a valuable third dimension to OS MasterMap Topography Layer.
Licence: PDF
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- 6 weekly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:1250 (OS MasterMap) and 5m (Terrain 5)
- Formats Available
- DWG, SHP, PDF
- Stated Accuracy
- Urban +/- 1m (OS MasterMap)
- Stated Accuracy
- Rural +/- 8m (OS MasterMap)
- Stated Accuracy
- +/- 8m (OS MasterMap)
- Licence Options
- 12, 24 or 36 months
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
Related Products
PDF Plans, Aerial Photography, OS MasterMap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus
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OS MasterMap Imagery Layer
The OS MasterMap Imagery Layer comprises the best available aerial images, edge-matched and orthorectified to align with other OS MasterMap layers.
Product DetailsThe aerial images give added context to features which exist within other (vector) OS MasterMap layers and allow interpretation of other features not identified within the vector datasets. The data is rigorously checked for quality to maintain a consistent standard of both positional accuracy and image quality.
Additionally Ordnance Survey processing software produces true-orthorectified imagery, removing building lean from aerial imagery to give you a consistent top-down view.
Aerial imagery is ideal for checking road markings, tree canopies or site entrances, cutting down the need for site visits, so you can save money and manage time more efficiently.
Purchasable as both a traditional raster cut-out of a user defined area or as web services.
OS MasterMap Imagery layer is ideal for:
- Planning
- Site location and evaluation
- Land use classification and analysis
- Transport and infrastructure
- Asset management
- Environmental analysis
- Flood mapping
- 3D visualisation
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Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- Quarterly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 25cm resolution
- Formats Available
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Licence Options
- Delivery Timescale
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Complementary Data
OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus
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OS MasterMap Highways Network
OS MasterMap Highways Network provides an authoritative view of the whole road network in Great Britain, ideal for routing and public sector data-sharing.
Product DetailsOS Mastermap Highways Network is the Ordnance Survey's latest and most comprehensive dataset of Great Britain's road network and is the next generation of the well-known product OS ITN. It is comprised of a suite of products that brings together the best information from authoritative sources in to one central location.
In addition to road centre lines and classifications, Highways features richer content that is better structured to allow for analysis as well as visualisation. Highways has been designed with traffic analysis, asset management, planning and the emergency services in mind, allowing users to plan for tomorrow. It gives you accurate and precise asset management information on who maintains the road network and the type of surface reinstatement values. And it's a valuable reporting tool, for key facts and statistics about the road, against a consistent and authoritative base.
OS Highways - Roads can be extended using OS Highways - Routing, and OS Highways - Paths
OS Highways - Roads attribution includes:
- road classification, naming and numbering
- vehicle restrictions
- links to OS Addressbase and the USRN
- roads under construction
- public/private maintained roads
- special engineering difficulty
- special event information
- road hazards: overhead structures, level crossings, movable bollards, gates
- protected streets
- traffic sensitive roads
OS Highways - Routing additionally includes:
- turn restrictions
OS Highways - Paths additionally includes:
- links between roads/paths
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:1250
- Formats Available
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Licence Options
- Delivery Timescale
Related Products
PDF Plans, Aerial Photography
Complementary Data
OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus
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OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads: SHP, GML, DWG
OS MasterMap Highways Network - Routing and Asset Management: SHP
OS MasterMap Highways Network - Paths: SHP, GML
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AddressBase Premium
Combining National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF), for the full lifecycle of an address.
Product DetailsThe new Address products have been produced by GeoPlace, a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Group.
The AddressBase™ Premium product includes the best parts of local government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), Ordnance Survey’s OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 and the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF), plus comprehensive address classification details.
AddressBase™ Premium is the most comprehensive product in the range and is an entirely new concept in the world of addressing for GB (England and Wales currently - Scotland coming in 2012). AddressBase™ Premium is a relational database detailing the whole lifecycle of an address from pre-build through completion and successive name changes of businesses. Suitable for use in interrogating for bespoke services, emapsite can provide access to this valuable dataset through our web services delivery solutions. Please call us for more details.
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- Formats Available
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Stated Accuracy
- Sub-metre
- Licence Options
- Delivery Timescale
Related Products
PDF Plans, Aerial Photography
Complementary Data
OS Mastermap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus
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